The Application.UserName field is programmatically setable by an AddIn. Utilize the Application.UserName field instead of some secret field provided by the Cloud Account other than the Application.UserName field. For instance, why does the Cloud Account not set the Application.UserName field based upon it's name convention (like local accounts do) and let Revision generation still Please make the behaviourĬonsistent, and of course, being consistent with O2010 would be really really nice. It only does NOT work if the user is logged into a cloud account. This works just fine if the user is logged into a local account. Understand, I'm talking about an AddIn being able to change the Author's name. Are you serious? So i would interpret this answer as 'I can't do want I want' kind of answer. Log out of the fictitious account and log back into the users account (which of course the AddIn does not know the user's password). For my AddIn to change the Author Name, my AddIn has to log out of the user's account, log in to some fictitious account named WordRake while staying within Word, make my Track Changes to the document,

Let me make sure I understand what you are saying. How can I manually change my username to reflect what I want? I can no longer manually change my username to what I want reflected in the revisions that I make to a document while TrackChanges is turned on. This seems broken to me, or at the very least,Ī change in the functionality of Word. However, in O2013, when the user is 'Signed in' to the Cloud, 'Application.UserName' is no longer the value used when Track Changes is on and I either manually or thru my AddIn make a suggested change. Users are allowed to manually change 'Application.UserName' via the File/Options/General/userName field and my AddIn is doing the same thing. Thus, any manual changes generate Revisions with Revision.Author having my manually set value for UserName, while my AddIn changes generate Revision with Revision.Author I'm done making suggested changes, I return the 'Application.UserName' to its original value.

I save the current value of 'Application.UserName', set it to my AddIn Name 'WordRake', make my suggested changes to the document which generates Revisions with Revision.Author having a value of 'WordRake', and when I return the Application.UserName to the user's name when the AddIn has completed Actually, my AddIn is actually making the suggested changes, and thus I want the Revision.Author to reflect this fact by setting the Application.UserName to my AddIn name.

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